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[August 2000]
Villeroy & Boch puts in an order for two more of LIPPERT's automatic interior glazers
As part of an ongoing automation extension program for sanitaryware production, Mettlach-based Villeroy & Boch has put in an order for two more of LIPPERT's automatic interior glazers, which are to be integrated into the company's existing LIPPERT-built glazing lines. Those two systems apply glaze to the entire interior of water closet bowls, including the trap -all in one fully automatic operation. Even the glaze supply tube switches over automatically from the wall-hung-bowl mode to the floormounted-bowl mode, and vise versa.
Villeroy & Boch has also purchased an automatic press unloading system for pressure-cast water closet bowls. There, a LIPPERT loading/unloading car transfers the pressure-cast bowls from their demolding pallets to a finishing and fixing station for further processing. The same LIPPERT loading/unloading car also automatically returns the now-empty handling pallets to the press area.
The "automatic wares handling" area downstream of the sorting station has also been expanded by adding a fourth laser-controlled handling vehicle and some more LIPPERT transfer stations for forwarding the fired sanitaryware automatically to either a repair station or the white house.
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